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Support for legalizing marijuana gaining ground rapidly
Washington :: DC :: USA | 8 days ago
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A few days later, advocates for easing marijuana laws left their biannual strategy conference with plans to press ahead on all fronts -- state law, ballot measures, and court -- in a movement that for the first time in decades appeared to be gaining ground....
Tags: medical marijuana, Barack Obama, Washington, Cannabis in the United States, Office of National Drug Control Policy, Legality of cannabis, Gil Kerlikowske, Ethan Nadelmann, Politics, Hemp, Drug policy of the United States, Healthcare in the United States, Social Issues
Our team in D.C. — Locke, Sims and Kerlikowske
Singapore :: Singapore | 11 days ago
Credibility There's Gary Locke, former governor of Washington state, accompanying President Obama to Singapore and China for meetings with world economic leaders. And there's Ron Sims, former King County executive, doling out cash for federal housing projects as...
Tags: Gary Locke, Gil Kerlikowske, Seattle Police, Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C, Singapore, Drug czar, Ron Sims, Presidency of Barack Obama, War on Drugs, John Locke, Drug policy of the United States, Social Issues
L.A. City Council puts off medical marijuana vote
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 13 days ago
Credibility City Council puts off medical marijuana vote Although members appear likely to ignore prosecutors and allow dispensaries to sell pot, they say they need time to study numerous proposed amendments. The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday postponed a...
Tags: medical marijuana, marijuana ordinance, Los Angeles City Council, L.A. City Council, Los Angeles, Paul Koretz, Josￃﾩ Huizar, Medical cannabis, Carmen Trutanich, Healthcare in the United States, Dispensary, Pharmacy, Healthcare reform, Steve Cooley, Antiemetics, Antioxidants, Legality of cannabis, Pierluigi Oliverio, San Jose California, Medicinal plants, Cannabis, Hemp, Norm Stamper, Drug czar, Prohibition, Gil Kerlikowske, Drug control law, Law enforcement in the United States, David Berger, Year of birth missing, Americans for Safe Access, California Senate Bill 420, Effects of cannabis, Cannabis in the United States
What Does the War on Drugs Mean? Ask the Drug Czar!
"Drug Czar" Gil Kerlikowske said it himself this spring and repeated it in El Paso this week at the 6th Annual Border Security Conference: the phrase "War on Drugs" is inaccurate. He told El Paso independent media The Newspaper Tree that there...
Tags: Drug Czar, Gil Kerlikowske, medical marijuana, 6th Annual Border Security Conference, El Paso, The Newspaper Tree, drug legalization, cocaine, marijuana, Drug War, War on Drugs, public health, prevention specialists, attorney general, Prohibition
California cracks down on marijuana farms
Fresno :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility US drug enforcement authorities in California's Fresno County have launched Operation Save Our Sierra to eradicate marijuana farms in the rather quiet, barely investigated part of the California. The first week and a half of the operation has seen the...
Tags: California, Fresno County, Gil Kerlikowske, Sierra Nevada, billion worth, drug czar
Obama's New Anti-drug Border Strategy: What it will and won't do (concisely)
A few heavyweights in Obama's administration converged last week to announce a new counter-narcotics strategy for the US-Mexico border. In short, their new plan, outlined in a 65-page document entitled "National Southwest Border Counternarcotics...
Tags: Mexico Solidarity Network, Obama administration, counter-narcotics, US-Mexico border, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration, Merida Initiative, Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano, Gil Kerlikowske, new strategy announced
Czar Seeks End to 'War on Drugs'
Washington :: DC :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility The Obama administration's new drug czar says he wants to banish the idea that the U.S...In his first interview since being confirmed to head the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Gil Kerlikowske said Wednesday the bellicose analogy...
Tags: Gil Kerlikowske, drug czar, drug control, U.S, wall street, control policy, house office, white house, street journal
Senate approves Seattle police chief as drug czar
Washington :: DC :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility The Senate has approved the nomination of Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske as the national drug czar. Kerlikowske, a 36-year law enforcement veteran, has said he will take a balanced, science-based approach to the job of director of the Office of...
Tags: Gil Kerlikowske, Seattle Police, Senate, police chief, drug czar, chief gil
U.S. Considers Border Patrol Requests
Washington :: DC :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility The Obama administration said it is reviewing state requests for deployment of National Guard troops on the U.S. border with Mexico, but that it doesn't have immediate plans to press the military into border patrols. With Mexican soldiers facing off in...
Tags: drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske, Barack Obama, Seattle, police chief, obama administration, George W. Bush, U.S, seattle police
Obama taps Seattle police chief drug czar
Washington :: DC :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske , his family touched by drug arrests, was nominated as U.S...Vice President Joe Biden announced Kerlikowske's nomination Wednesday, saying he knows of no one more qualified to be the director of the Office of National...
Tags: drug czar, U.S.-Mexico, polices chief, Seattle Police, Gil Kerlikowske, Barack Obama, United States, Obama Administration, seattle polices, Biden
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